Moviepass: pay $10/mo, see one movie a day in theaters

Goatface said:

i don't understand, what is the advantage in doing it that"

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Well. its complicated. Some people will do it to buy premium tickets, like if you have 3 moviepass cards you could buy two IMAX tickets and split the charges for 2 tickets among 3 cards (or just pay the difference in cash if its 1 imax + 1 moviepass card). Some people may be reselling although that seems kind of ludicrous, is there some weird underground movieticket biz really?

The majority case are being fucked over by clueless movie theaters. For years we are used to "please give me 4 tickets, 2 adults 2 children. Here is my credit card." so most people are going to mistakenly think moviepass is the same, and for box office cashiers its easier to run X tickets in 1 purchase and just split the payment among multiple cards rather than ring each one seperately. I've seen at least a dozen times older people be told this by movie theater cashiers and since its the way they've always bought movies they go along with it. This fucks with moviepass's data though and looks like split charges.

Of course moviepass is a total hacked up, fucked up system where they REALLY never want you to do split purchases (if they could disable it they would, but they are piggybacking off the debit card network) but instead 1 swipe = 1 ticket.

So its really just a side effect of the dumbshit way moviepass decided to run around movie theaters by doing this debit card app/load scheme, and then movie theaters not really giving a shit and their existing business practices colliding hard with moviepass.

For example some smaller theaters shut down the box office I guess during the weekdays and you purchase movie tickets at the concession stand, since only 1 college kid is working the entire theater. Well, in the debit network that comes across as a concession stand purchase. Couple people have been banned because from MoviePass's limited data, it looks like they are buying snacks when its just an artifact of how theaters don't all work the same way.

Beginning of the end i think. MoviePass is now gonna require you to take a photo of your ticket before you can get another one (the next day), to counter fraud. Pretty silly since its trivial to snap your ticket and then go exchange it at the counter for something else. Given that customer service of MP is unreachable I'm sure there will be zero problems like fucked up tickets, camera not working on some phones, app crashing on photo screen and no way to recover, upload not working, and who knows what the fuck they are actually doing with these scans and how well that'll work.

text of email sent:

We are implementing a few systems to protect our service from fraudulent activity to ensure that MoviePass is sustainable for the entire community. As part of this initiative, we will soon begin testing some new safeguards.

Starting over the next few days, after you purchase a movie ticket with your MoviePass card, you will need to upload a photo of your ticket stub. This photo needs to be uploaded before you're able to purchase your next movie ticket through MoviePass. You'll be prompted to submit the photo of your ticket stub through the MoviePass app. This feature will help us better track user behavior and ensure that subscribers are abiding by our Terms of Use. We appreciate your cooperation as we test out this new process.

The process is really simple. All you’ll have to do is enable camera access for your MoviePass app, and then the app will prompt you to take a photo of your ticket stub after you purchase a movie ticket. Once the photo verification is processed (this will only take seconds), you’ll be able to purchase your next ticket the following day. We don’t believe this extra step should impact your experience.

tomb raider 2 weeks
pacific rim 2 3 weeks
ready player one
avengers
deadpool 2
han solo
super troopers 2
jurassic world 2
incredibles 2
soldado
ant man 2
equalizer 2
mama mia 2
mission impossible 6
replicas
the meg

there is a pretty good list of movies between now and august still

he's lying, the app doesn't currently track your location data all the time, only when you actually check in for a movie. People have run it through network sniffers and it doesn't have any sort of background tracking data, and I believe google and apple would kick them off their app stores if they tried (not even sure user level apps could do that when they are closed), plus you can set security level of apps to turn off tracking and only turn it on when you run it.

The CEO has been caught up in a number of these kind of lies to try and convince Hollywood studios and Wall Street that MoviePass is far more useful, sophisticated, and powerful than it actually is. I don't know what is weirder, the fact that he regularly lies about stuff or the fact that he doesn't seem to know how the technology for his own company works.

MoviePass has simply been a huge transfer of wealth like the dot-com era, taking $200m from stock market investors and giving it to movie theaters, and another $100m from consumers ($10/mo) and giving that to movie chains too with really very little to show for all that money. Its been fantastic for consumers though, I've racked up insane amounts of reward points I can use for years to see the movies I'd actually want to see in theaters, for $10/mo can't really beat it as long as it stays alive. At current cash burn rates I think it has another 4-5 months before they have to raise more money again.